Mad March

March has been a bit mad this year, largely due to the early date of Easter. This month, I’ve had two family birthdays to celebrate (including my own) and have also been involved in four community events, led four additional Lent Bible studies and lunches and baked...

The Alarm Clock

Today’s household object is the alarm clock, and the Bible passages are John 13:36-38 and John 16:25-27. Alarm clocks are useful in waking us each morning; nature’s alarm clock is the cockerel! The cockerel (or rooster) features in the Easter story as a warning to us:...

The Towel

Today as we approach Maundy Thursday, our household object is the humble towel, and our Bible passage is John 13:2-15. Towels are found in the bathroom, kitchen and toilets, places where we wash ourselves. They can be relatively small (the hand towel) or luxuriously...

According To The Scriptures

Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, is recorded in different gospels, including John 12:12-16. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians about the gospel, stresses the importance of the death and resurrection of Jesus and tells us that these things happened...

Palm Sunday

Dave spoke this morning about Palm Sunday, speaking from Matthew 21:1-11. The journey to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover festival was always a time of excitement and anticipation, with Jews coming from far and wide (Josephus says 250,000 lambs would be sacrificed...